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Acculturation

The document defines key terms related to culture and cultural interactions including: - Acculturation is the process of cultural and psychological change that results from blending between cultures. - Assimilation is when a minority group gradually adopts the beliefs and behaviors of the dominant culture. - Cultural competence is having the ability to interact respectfully with people from different cultural backgrounds. - Culture is the set of behaviors, beliefs, and symbols that represent a people's way of life.

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Acculturation

The document defines key terms related to culture and cultural interactions including: - Acculturation is the process of cultural and psychological change that results from blending between cultures. - Assimilation is when a minority group gradually adopts the beliefs and behaviors of the dominant culture. - Cultural competence is having the ability to interact respectfully with people from different cultural backgrounds. - Culture is the set of behaviors, beliefs, and symbols that represent a people's way of life.

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 Acculturation = a readiness for adaptation or "to modify one's own culture as a result of

contact with another culture"


A person or group from one culture can get acclimated to the customs and values of
another culture through the process of acculturation. Acculturation, the transformation of
cultural objects, practices, and beliefs as a result of intercultural encounter,
.
 Assimilation =: An individual or group's readiness "to progressively absorb and
incorporate components within the prevailing culture. Assimilation is the process through
which individuals and groups from other ancestries adopt the fundamental practices,
viewpoints, and way of life of an open culture. The process of cultural assimilation, in
which a minority group gradually adopts the beliefs and behaviors of the dominant
culture and customs

 Culture awareness =: recognizing and admiring "the external signs of diversity" displayed
by different ethnic groups, such as their music, clothing, physical characteristics, and art.
Being aware of one's own culturally influenced values, ideas, perceptions, and prejudices;
understanding how people acquire their cultures and how significant they are to people's
identities, ways of living, and mental and physical health.

 Culture competence = having the "knowledge, abilities, and skills to provide care
compatible with the patient's cultural values and traditions. Cultural competence is the
capacity to engage, collaborate, and forge deep connections with people from different
cultural origins. The values, traditions, and conduct of individuals belonging to various
groups might be considered cultural background.

 Culture diversity = The word used to refer to the diversity of cultures found in society.
Understanding that society is made up of various groups with various interests, skills, and
talents is a key component of cultural diversity. needs. It also means to understand that
people in society may have different sexual orientations and religious beliefs from one’s
own.

 Culture relativism = The belief that people's actions and practices should be judged only
from the context of their cultural system." Cultural relativism is the view that ethical and
social standards reflect the cultural context from which they originate. Cultural relativists
argue that cultures are fundamentally different from each other, as are the moral
frameworks that structure relationships within different societies.

 Culture = “The sum total of the behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, ways of
life and all other products of human labor and thinking characteristic of a group of people
that shape their view of the world. gender and their decision-making. These patterns can
be explicit or implicit, are mainly learned and transmitted in families and shared by most
cultures. Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are specific to
members of a given society.

 Ethnic group = Also known as subculture; a group of "people whose experiences contrast
from those of the dominant culture" A group of people who share a common culture
(beliefs, values, and behaviors), language, religion, ancestry, or other characteristics.
Other similarities are often passed from one generation to the next.

 Ethnocentrism = “the propensity of humans to believe that [their] own ways of thinking,
doing, and believing are the only ones that are right, proper, and natural and to assume
that people who have quite different viewpoints are unusual, bizarre, or unenlightened.
The term "ethnocentrism" refers to cultural or ethnic prejudice, whether conscious or
unconscious, in which a person sees the world through the lens of his or her own group,
setting their own group as the archetypal group and evaluating all other groups in terms
of this ideal.

 Ideology = the ideas, attitudes, and convictions that represent the social requirements and
preferences of a person or an ethnocultural community. An ideology is a group of
consciously or subconsciously held ideas, attitudes, and convictions that reflect or mold
perceptions of the social and political environment.

 Subculture = a group of individuals "who have had experiences that are different from
those of the dominant culture by virtue of their status, ethnic background, place of
residence, religion, education, or other factors that serve to functionally unite the group
and act on one another.

 Transcultural = "Comparing culture to find commonalities and differences. The exchange


of concepts, influences, practices, and beliefs between cultures as well as the fusions that
happen when these concepts, influences, practices, and beliefs do so in a particular
setting, text, or contact zone.

 Worldview = the way people or groups of people establish values about their lives and the
world around them by how they perceive the world around them. a thorough
understanding of something, especially from a certain perspective.

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